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HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance 4429 (2)ORDINANCE NO.+'1 . ORDINANCE OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PALO ALTO AMENDING SECTION 18.43.050 OF THE PALO ALTO MUNICIPAL CODE (COMMUNITY COMMERCIAL DISTRICT SITE DEVELOPMENT REGULATIONS), RELATING TO THE ALLOWABLE FLOOR AREA OF THE STANFORD SHOPPING CENTER The Council of the City of Palo Alto does ORDAIN as follows: SECTION 1. The City Council finds as follows: a. The Planning Commission, after duly noticed public hearing, has recommended that the Council amend Section 18.43.050 of the Palo Alto Municipal Code (Community Commercial District Site Development Regulations). b. After duly noticed public hearing, and upon consideration of said recommendation and of all testimony offered upon the matter, the Council finds that the public interest, health, safety and welfare of Palo Alto and the surrounding region require the amendments to the Zoning Map as hereinafter set forth. SECTION 2. Section 18.43.050 of the Palo Alto Municipal Code (Community Commercial District Site Development Regulations) is hereby amended to read as follows: 18.43.050 Site Development Regulations. The following site development regulations shall apply in the CC community commercial district. When the CC community commercial district is combined with the pedestrian shopping combining district or with the civic center combining district, more restrictive regulations may apply. Also more restrictive regulations may be recommended by the architectural review board and approved by the director of planning and community environment, pursuant to Chapter 16.48. (a) Site area. No requirement is established. (b) Site width. No requirement is established. (c) Site depth. No requirement is established. (d) Front yard. No requirement is established. (e) Rear yard. No requirement is established. (f) Side yard. No requirement is established. (g) Floor area ratio. The maximum floor area ratio shall be as follows: (1) The maximum floor area ratio for the Town and Country Shopping Village Shopping Center shall be .35 to 3.; and office uses at said shopping center shall be limited to fifteen percent of the floor area of the shopping center ex.“iting as of August 1, 1989. For the purposes of this section "Town and Country 1 970703 lac 003I578 m Village Shopping Center" is defined as all properties zoned CC and bounded by El Camino Real, Embarcadero Road, Encina Avenue, and the ' Southern Pacific right-of-way. (2) Stanford Shopping Center shall not be permitted to add more than oixty five thouoand eighty thousand (80, 000)` square feet of floor area to the total amount of floor area of the Shopping Center existing as of August 1, 1989 June 14, 1996, one million three hundred , thirty-two thousand three hundred s x:332,362) aquae feet, for a total, square footage not Ilion four hundred . twelve thousand three hundred s 62). For the purposes of this section, "Stanford Shopping Center is defined as all properties zoned CC and bounded by El Camino Real, Sand Hill Road, Quarry Road and , the properties) bordering Arboretum Road to the oouth the future alignment of vineyard Lane. (h) Site coverage. No requirement is established, except as provided in Section 18.43.070. (i) Height. The maximum height shall be 15.2 meters (fifty feet) . (j) Accessory facilities and uses. Regulations governing accessory facilities and uses, and governing the application of site development regulations in specific instances, are established by Chapter 18.88. (k) Outdoor sales and storage. (1) Except in shopping centers, all permitted office and commercial activities shall be conducted within a building, except for: (A) Incidental sales and display of plant materials and garden supplies occupying no more than one hundred eighty-six square meters (two thousand square feet) of exterior sales and display area, (B) Outdoor eating areas operated incidental to permitted eating and drinking services, (C) Farmers' markets which have obtained a conditional use permit, and (D) Recycling centers which have obtained a conditional use permit. (2) Any permitted outdoor activity in excess of one hundred eighty-six square meters (two thousand square feet) shall be subject to a conditional use permit. Exterior storage shall be prohibited, except as provided under (D) of this subsection. 2 970703 lac 0031578 ' (1) Site and design review. Residential and nonresidential mixed use projects shall be subject to site and design review in accord with Chapter 18.62. (m) Special setbacks. Where applicable, setback lines imposed by a special setback map pursuant to Chapter 20.08 of this code shall be followed for the purpose of determining legal setback requirements. S8CTION 3. The City Council adopts this ordinance in accordance with the California Environmental Quality Act ("CEQA") findings adopted by Resolution No. 7685. SECTION 4. This ordinance shall be effective upon the thirty-first day after its adoption, but shall be suspended and inoperative unless and until the Ordinance Adopting the Development Agreement Between the City of Palo Alto and the Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford ,Junior University has been approved by the City Council and, if submitted to a referendum by the City Council on its own motion or by a certified sufficient petition of the electorate, pursuant to the Article VI, section 3 of the Charter of the City of Palo Alto, until approved by the voters. INTRODUCED: PASSED: AYES: NOES: ABSENT: ABSTENTIONS: ATTEST: APPROVED: City Clerk Mayor APPROVED AS TO FORM: City Manager Senior Asst. City Attorney Director of Planning and Community Environment 3 97b7O3 Inc D031 S7t